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Jacqueline Rivers, LMFT

  • Experience10 years
  • LocationNew Mexico
  • Focus areasADHD, Stress and Anxiety, and Family
  • Therapy approachesAttachment-Based Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy
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About Jacqueline

Jacqueline Rivers is a licensed marriage and family therapist who uses a client-centered, systems-informed approach to help people move toward meaningful change. She draws on attachment theory and neurobiology principles to offer tools, perspective, and structured guidance that support clients’ goals.

Background and approach

With a focus on collaboration, she encourages clients to access their own strengths while introducing strategies tailored to each person’s situation. Over the past decade Jacqueline has worked with individuals, couples, and families on a wide range of concerns including anxiety, depression, grief and loss, relationship conflict, stress, and issues related to cancer.

Her practice also includes attention to ADHD, trauma and abuse, intimacy and parenting challenges, and career or life-purpose questions. Jacqueline combines evidence-informed methods such as EMDR with mindfulness and solution-focused techniques to address both immediate problems and longer-term patterns.

Based in New Mexico, Jacqueline holds the LMFT credential and brings training in attachment work, suicide prevention, neurobiology, and trauma-informed care. She aims to create a supportive environment where clients can explore choices, build resilience, and move toward clearer, achievable outcomes.

How Jacqueline's Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Jacqueline integrates Attachment-Based Therapy and EMDR into her online work in ways that aim to address both relationship patterns and trauma-related symptoms. Attachment-based work focuses on how early connection styles influence current relationships and helps clients learn new interaction patterns and emotional regulation skills. EMDR is used to process distressing memories and reduce their emotional impact through structured, phase-based interventions and can be adapted for remote sessions when clinically appropriate.

Finding the right approach is treated as a collaborative process. Jacqueline partners with each client to explore which methods fit their needs and goals, adjusting techniques over time based on progress and preferences. This collaborative stance helps tailor work to relationship dynamics, trauma history, attention differences such as ADHD, and current life demands.

Online therapy with Jacqueline is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility for scheduling and communication style. These formats make it easier for clients to access consistent care from New Mexico without needing in-person visits, and they allow for a variety of ways to practice skills, process experiences, and follow up between sessions.

Frequently asked questions

What types of concerns does Jacqueline address?
She works with a broad set of issues including stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship conflict, trauma and abuse, ADHD, intimacy-related issues, parenting concerns, and career or life-purpose questions.
How would you describe Jacqueline's therapeutic style?
Her approach is client-centered and systems-informed, blending attachment theory and neurobiology with practical tools to support change and strengthen relationships.
What experience does she bring to therapy?
Jacqueline has ten years of clinical experience providing therapy to individuals, couples, and families across a variety of life challenges and transitions.
What are her credentials and where is she licensed?
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in New Mexico, listed as NM LMFT CMF0180001 with the LMFT credential.
In which languages can clients work with her and does she accept international clients?
She provides services in English and is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats does she offer for online work?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on client preference and availability.
How are fees and payments handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What steps are needed to begin working with her?
To get started select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

Stress, AnxietyFamily conflictsGriefDepressionCoping with life changes

Also works with

LGBTRelationship issuesTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issuesParenting issuesSelf esteemCareer difficultiesBipolar disorderCoachingCompassion fatigueADHD

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAttachment issuesBody imageCancerCaregiver issues and stressCommunication problemsCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDivorce and separationFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsFertility issuesGuilt and shameLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisMood disordersMulticultural concernsPanic disorder and panic attacksPostpartum depressionPost-traumatic stressPregnancy and childbirthSelf-loveSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyEye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)Mindfulness TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

10+ years

Licensed

New Mexico

Languages

English

What Jacqueline can help with

Jacqueline Rivers works with clients on stress and anxiety, family conflicts, grief, depression, and coping with life changes.

Jacqueline works with people with anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and relationship conflict (romantic, family, peers).

How Jacqueline approaches therapy

Jacqueline's clinical approaches include Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Mindfulness Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy.

Experience and training

Jacqueline is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in New Mexico, with 10 years of clinical experience.